Monthly Archives: October 2012
Postcards from Now
Life is different, these days. Small tasks loom large; outings are few and hard-won. This was a maybe too ambitious outing to an arboretum about an hour away…it’s so hard to know when this baby is done nursing. I can … Continue reading
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Hurricane Housebound
It’s funny to see all my Facebook friends commenting about how Hurricane Sandy is a good chance to stay home and be cozy with their families and be off from work. With a newborn, we’ve been nothing BUT home and … Continue reading
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Feeding Friday
Can’t wait to re-institute Fitness Fridays again. There’s just not much fitness happening for me right now, but I’m pretty much too exhausted to care. There IS a lot of feeding…complicated, problematic baby feeding. Part of me wishes this could … Continue reading
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Milestones
Henry has officially outgrown newborn diapers and he’s into size ones. Funny enough, since my last post on Monday saw me complaining about being tired and being stressed, things got worse, if only to remind me that a return to … Continue reading
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Two Weeks, Or, It’s Always a Good Time
Newborn days. They’re short, since winding down for family bedtime starts soon after fall’s early dusk. At 7 p.m. we take the party upstairs for the two parent wrangling of preschooler and newborn for “bedtime.” The nights are long. Mornings … Continue reading
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No Fitness Itch
Almost two weeks postpartum and I don’t really have an itch to run, or work out like I imagined I would. I think it’s because breastfeeding and baby caring and three year old wrangling and adjusting to newborn sleep life … Continue reading
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Adjustment Anxieties
So we’re into the second week with baby, and although things are very do-able now, it’s because my husband is on a paternity leave. My thoughts (mostly worries) keep turning to what will happen when he goes back to work … Continue reading
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A Birth Story
Everyone has one, right? After weeks of feeling like any day could the The One, I resigned myself to just forgetting about this baby ever coming and relax. My husband and I joked that it would be nice and convenient … Continue reading
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And Then There Were Four
Henry John was born on Sunday, October 7th at 8:47 a.m. He was 9 pounds and 3 ounces! And 21 1/2 inches long. Labor was less than four hours from my water breaking to birth! Can’t wait to write a … Continue reading
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Fitness Friday: The Bare Minimum Edition
So I hate that my weeks in fitness are becoming so lackluster and just going through the motions, but I guess that’s the reality at the very end of my pregnancy. I’m 39 weeks and 3 days and I’m so … Continue reading
Filed under Pregnancy and Post Partum Fitness, Weight Training
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